The first promo pic has been released showing Mickey Rourke decked out as villain Whiplash for next summer’s Iron Man 2.  I don’t read comic books, but I consulted The Google and learned that the movie character will be a combination of the comic book characters Whiplash and Crimson Dynamo, and… okay, look.  Let’s not kid ourselves, people.  Mickey Rourke is neat-o and I have no doubt that he’ll bring an interesting element to the hopefully asskicking Iron Man sequel, but this is really all just an elaborate excuse to post shirtless pictures of Robert Downey, Jr. again.

Rawrrrrr:

Robert Downey, Jr. stopped by ShoWest to introduce preview footage for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, which doesn’t come out until December.  ComingSoon has a pretty detailed description of the footage, but the only really important part is this:

There was a quick-cut montage of more action scenes before a scene where a maid walks into a room and screams, dropping the tray she was carrying.  We cut to Downey chained to a bed naked except for a pillow covering his genitals, and he asks her to remain calm and that under the pillow is the “key to his release” and the shocked woman runs out screaming.

Eeeeexcellent.  So is it December yet?

…no?

How ’bout now?  Is it December now?

Goddammit.  In the meantime, here’s some shirtless RDJ to tide you over:

Because those bastard English are never happy unless they’re showing everyone else up, they also had an awards show last night.  It was the BAFTAs, and it was chock full of more interesting people in better clothes than the stupid losers at the Grammys.  Yay for red carpet round-ups (holy shit, I cannot wait for awards season to be over)!

Kate Winslet won yet another award, once again looked hot as hell doing it:

Brad’s still got that dumbass mustache, but Angelina didn’t wear a shapeless sack this time.  Her dress actually fit her and even had a sliver of colour!

Robert Downey, Jr. looked fantastic, and he was being so sweetly adorable with his wife that I think I got Diabetes just from looking at them:

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Put that in your pipe and smoke it, dear Watson! Rowr.

One more official still from Robert Downey, Jr.’s new Sherlock Holmes movie: